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Gabriela Aceves Sepulveda 12-08-2022
[Re] Activating “Mama Pina’s Cookbook is an interactive web iteration of “Re-mediating Mama Pina’s Cookbook”. It engages with Eichhorn’s interest in understanding the role of women as agents of the archive in our digital era, and proposes digital remediation as a strategy to reactivate forms of domestic writing that have been traditionally excluded from the archive. Specifically, it provides access to a family cookbook handwritten by three generations of women in Guadalajara, Mexico (1885–2014) in the form of digital scans and limited transcribed texts. The site also contains a web adaptation of my four-channel video art installation Remediating Mamá Pina’s Cookbook, which includes diverse creative responses to the cookbook. While the project provides some access to the source, it is not meant to be a complete and accessible database of the cookbook. Rather, it offers traces and fragments for new points of departure, alternative modes of human interpretation and engagement with the digital archive, while questioning understandings of who and what the agents of the digital archive are, as well as its limits, its insufficiencies, and its potential. http://www.criticalmediartstudio.com/RemediatingMamaPina/
The project is published in Feminist Media Histories Journal special issue on Data edited by Miriam Posner and Lauren Klein (Summer 2017, vol. 3, no. 3) . http://fmh.ucpress.edu/
Remediating “Mama Pina’s Cookbook” explores the family cookbook as an archival technology through which gender roles, social status, cultural memories, and identities are passed on from generation to generation. It is part of an on-going exploration of the role of women as agents and producers of the archive. This exploration considers female reproductive labor, ephemeral and domestic forms of writing and material culture —traditionally viewed as outside of the archive— as central foci of the archive. The results of this on-going exploration entail the production of digital and performative forms with the objective of reactivating and re-mediating such archives.
With collaborations by:
Mónica Martinez, Pablo Ignacio Aceves Iturbide, Gabriela Sepúlveda Campos, Alessandra Santos, Claudia Irvine-Little, Grupo Retazos (Laura D. Cisneros, Beatriz Álvarez, Nancy Espinoza, Laura Vass, and Karine Ng), Alejandra Bronfman, Rafael Santa Ana, Sara Shamash, Isabel Sepúlveda, Laura Madokoro and Tom Leung.
The project was presented as a four channel video installation at the Computer Art Congress (CAC.5) in Paris in October 2016.
Gabriela Aceves Sepulveda: , 12-08-2022, in: Archive of Digital Art [Re] Activating “Mama Pina’s Cookbook is an interactive web iteration of “Re-mediating Mama Pina’s Cookbook”. It engages with Eichhorn’s interest in understanding the role of women as agents of the archive in our digital era, and proposes digital remediation as a strategy to reactivate forms of domestic writing that have been traditionally excluded from the archive. Specifically, it provides access to a family cookbook handwritten by three generations of women in Guadalajara, Mexico (1885–2014) in the form of digital scans and limited transcribed texts. The site also contains a web adaptation of my four-channel video art installation Remediating Mamá Pina’s Cookbook, which includes diverse creative responses to the cookbook. While the project provides some access to the source, it is not meant to be a complete and accessible database of the cookbook. Rather, it offers traces and fragments for new points of departure, alternative modes of human interpretation and engagement with the digital archive, while questioning understandings of who and what the agents of the digital archive are, as well as its limits, its insufficiencies, and its potential. http://www.criticalmediartstudio.com/RemediatingMamaPina/
The project is published in Feminist Media Histories Journal special issue on Data edited by Miriam Posner and Lauren Klein (Summer 2017, vol. 3, no. 3) . http://fmh.ucpress.edu/
Remediating “Mama Pina’s Cookbook” explores the family cookbook as an archival technology through which gender roles, social status, cultural memories, and identities are passed on from generation to generation. It is part of an on-going exploration of the role of women as agents and producers of the archive. This exploration considers female reproductive labor, ephemeral and domestic forms of writing and material culture —traditionally viewed as outside of the archive— as central foci of the archive. The results of this on-going exploration entail the production of digital and performative forms with the objective of reactivating and re-mediating such archives.
With collaborations by:
Mónica Martinez, Pablo Ignacio Aceves Iturbide, Gabriela Sepúlveda Campos, Alessandra Santos, Claudia Irvine-Little, Grupo Retazos (Laura D. Cisneros, Beatriz Álvarez, Nancy Espinoza, Laura Vass, and Karine Ng), Alejandra Bronfman, Rafael Santa Ana, Sara Shamash, Isabel Sepúlveda, Laura Madokoro and Tom Leung.
The project was presented as a four channel video installation at the Computer Art Congress (CAC.5) in Paris in October 2016.
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